The science of artificial intelligence is being fully embraced by all of
the major tech companies. With such investment behind various robotic
and A.I. initiatives, we are beginning to see a strong acceleration toward replacing humans as completely as possible.

One entrepreneur in the field is now saying that for specific jobs there very well could be 100% replacement in just 5 years.

The economic elite
have not hidden their agenda of replacing human labor with machines.
Speaking at the most recent Davos economic conference - widely
considered to be the elite economic forum to discuss trends and
political strategy - an expert in artificial intelligence and machine
learning, Jeremy Howard, had some stunning announcements that indicate a
major shift in employment is set to occur very soon.

Howard stated
that we have hit a critical threshold where machine intelligence is
performing better than even the leading experts in the fields of
medicine, science, and banking, among others. Howard went on to assert
that we are about to encounter conditions akin to those that occurred
after the Industrial Revolution replaced manufacturing and agricultural
workers to a vast degree.

And this is for highly skilled labor. But as A.I. entrepreneur
and owner of London Brand Management, Dmitry Askenov, asserts -
salespeople, call center staff and customer service personnel are really
on the chopping block.

In these types of information acquisition and information relay jobs,
computers could function faster and with a far lesser degree of error.
As Askenov's company website indicates:

For example, if someone asks a question, the
system understands it and finds an answer, and gets back in the same
tone of voice; it ‘echo’s’ the sentiment. If the same person asks five
more questions, the system understands this person is engaging with the
product and can notify one or more of the appropriate people in the
organisation who can then follow up the customer’s interest. The only
difference between how a real human would do this and our system is the
speed of the reply and that our system is tireless – it can work
24/7/365 and can reply to a potential customer’s question with the
correct information in milliseconds.

Our
system, like a human, understands natural language such as questions
and feedback as well a the product knowledge held by clients and in the
public domain. It then finds the required information, performs
programmed actions and replies as a human would. (Source)

Some
people might believe that computers are still in the stages of merely
processing information and could never communicate in a human manner to
be equally effective where social cues are concerned. Not so, says
Askenov:

It not only reads the keywords and understands
the kind of information you are trying to learn; it also interprets
context, sentiment, and can even understand humour. It also remembers
and learns as you talk to it, so it’s capable of having a proper
conversation.

[...]

Within
five years we will have a system that truly knows more than a human
could ever know and is more efficient at delivering information. (emphasis added) [Source]

The
rapid development in artificial intelligence is what has led to such
seemingly outlandish predictions such as those made by Professor of
Computer Science, Moshe Vardi, when he stated that all human work will be fully outsourced to robots and robotic machine intelligence by 2045.
But we need to keep in mind that this is not some sort of overnight
switch that gets thrown; it is happening right now, as technology is
already killing middle class jobs.

Apparently no one seems to be immune ... not even this writer. Another recent article really got
my personal attention - robot journalism. It seems that indeed robot
journalists are populating the Internet. So far, they have been
relegated to statistical acquisition articles, such as sporting events,
financial reports, and earthquake news. However, as Singularity Hub
reported, more news is being written by the proprietary A.I. program
from company Narrative Science than you might think:

Forbes is open about its use of Narrative’s
software, including an explanation in the article. The LA Times
earthquake story, written by an algorithm created by one of their staff,
included a disclaimer. But many more big sites anonymously use algorithms to write simple stories.

Narrative’s approach can be applied elsewhere too. The firm recently launched an app
that works with Google Analytics to transform raw website metrics
(traffic, sources, referrals, demographics) into accessible, natural
language reports. These could be useful in any business, a kind of
automated analyst to help make sense of big data sets. (Source)

Remembering
that this type of technology is exponential in its evolution, we are
presented with predictions that a robot journalist could win the Pulitzer prize within 5 years,
which precisely echoes the time frame given by Askenov for call center
staff replacement. Narrative Science goes on to claim that 90% of all
news articles could be A.I. generated by 2030.

I am left hoping that these predictions are just wishful thinking from
company spokespeople with a product to sell. In the meantime, if you
have any news tips, please send them my way in the comment section
below.

Sheeple

The Black Sheep tries to warn its friends with the truth it has seen, unfortunately herd mentality kicks in for the Sheeple, and they run in fear from the black sheep and keep to the safety of their flock.

Having tried to no avail to awaken his peers, the Black Sheep have no other choice but to unite with each other and escape the impending doom.

What color Sheep are you?

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